come gather round people wherever you roam
and accept that the networks around you have grown
and admit that software piracy you don't condone
if your data to you is worth saving
then you better make backups
on your macs or pc clones
for the times they are a changin
come students and staffers who double-click with your mice
and keep your eyes open - your screen savers look so nice
and don't blame network downtime on poltergeists
the new copy of WORD just delivered
takes 2 dozen diskettes and needs 40 megabytes
cos' the times they are a changin
come faculty and administrators, please read your e-mail
it's been there for months now and it's gettin stale
our attempts to get more disk space from ADP have failed
the battle on campus is ragin
whether we will use windows or macs will prevail
yup the times they are a changin
come users and sysadmins all over the LAN
your bandwidth requirements we don't understand
your digital desktops and cryptic commands
your multimedia stations
were not in the budget of our five year plan
but the times they are a changin
with Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI
we've got the best network that money can buy
with Internet access and registration on-line
but yesterday when he was cleaning
the janitor unplugged the power and all systems died
oh the times they are a changin